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From July 18, 1936, when Death first began his fearful walk across Spain, London newspapers have had a team of correspondents in the war zone reporting, often at risk of their lives, every chapter of the modern tragedy. Two of these men are now home. They will never forget what they saw. To-day they write on this page.

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Men Who Can't Forget

By Jay Allen

HE truth about rebel Spain does not get into print. The reason is clear. Correspondents with the rebel armies can't write the truth and stay on the

These men carry the horrors in their breasts. Where they fester.. Why otherwise are those who come out, unable to stand it any longer, in such a state? What have they seen?

The sweet stink of blood from the bull-ring at

Hongkong Telegraph. Badajoz can't still be in their nostrils now.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1937.

BETTER LATE THAN

NEVER

Can it be that in Talavera they heard the shots and the screams that the racing motors of the trucks were supposed to cover?

Can it be that they saw the bodies of the "Reds" near Torrijos, tied back to back Chinese fashion, dangling on

rope stretched between two trees?

Can it be that they have heard the slick young men of the *Falange, so glib about their ideals of National-Syndicalism, tell how they made the Socialist deputy jump from a fifth-storey window? And the slickest of them all tell how he himself shot 737

Or can it be that on the Talavera front that night they saw the captured militia girls. "Reds," of course, turned over to the Moore, one to twenty Moors?

The more the acute situationja created by outside interference in the Spanish civil war is pondered over, the deeper be comes the feeling of regret that it has not been found possible long before now to put a definite check on the enrolling of volunteers by both sides in the struggle. It is beyond dispute that if a sincere effort had been made, at the very beginning, the present position, with its threats of a general conflagra- tion, would never have arisen. Nations sympathetic to the rival

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Or can it be that they wondered about the piles of dead by the roadside? True that the dand all like look very low-class people. After a week on the barricades, and dead, the village school-teacher and the doctor look very much like the others. You don't sce the dream in the dead face in the mud.

Or maybe that when they arrived in Toledo forty-eight hours after the rebel troops entered. to make it "the whitest city in Spain" they found blood still wet, and had to step lightly lest they soil their feet.

Perhaps the hospital was still burning. The action. hitherto, with the con-hospital where the 600 Government wounded, acquence that the situation has criminally abandoned, had been." grown more grave with every passing day. There has been interminable argument by the nations represented on the Non- Intervention Committee cerning various aspects of the problem, and, whilst the quibbling and hair-splitting have gone on, both sides have been reinforced by outside. aid. | Given a genuine universal desire to prescribe the area of the Spanish conflict, it should not have been an insuperable task to secure unanimity of action by the Powers generally. The trouble has been not only the obvious lack of such sincerity, but the prevelanco of a spirit

Did I say "had been"? Where they were when the Moors came in tossing hand-grenades. The flames ended the agony.

Perhaps they have begun to ask themselves why, if this revolution is to save Spain from the "Reds," the Liberals are being hunted down so savagely. Of course, they have to find it out first.

Take Pamplona. In Pamplona 2,000 "Reds" were executed. But there were hardly any "Reds" in Pamplona.

of Azana's party, was beaton to death with sticks But Bengaraz, the kind Bengaraz, president

by the boys of the Falange.

So was Leandro Villafranca, 65-year-old re- tired Treasury official, and Natalio Chapela, the magistrate.. Everywhere it's the same.

In Granada the Masons dig their own graves. In La Linea the rich shopkeepers who voted for

*Falange: Fascist group, formed by Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera son of former Dictator.

of distrust and suspicion, absurd to merit attention. But spirit which to-day prevails in surely an issue of this kind bolls international affairs the wide down to a matter of actual fact,

German

LARGO CABALLERO

Him Franco would cheerfully executo

Martinez Barrio, who is about as "Red" us Mr. Stanley Baldwin, are shot.

This is the point. Franco shoots the Liberals, Largo Caballero he would cheerfully execute. Azana he would boil in oil.

This is a rising of the old Black Spain against the Liberal Spain. The "Reds" were a pretext.

The truth will be told because there are British and American journalists of integrity with the rebels. But why can't it be told now, before it is too late?

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By

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HIS is a war-corres- pondent's life Spain to-day.

When you have been out all day, motoring 90 miles

to get your facts, you write your message at breakneck speed to have it censored early. Then you wait three and four hours before the one telephone line to London is free.

Perhaps you live, as I did, in the Gran Via, opposite the telephone buildings, from which all calls must be made.

You scramble down a narrow hill-the Via Montera, which was bombed-crowded at this hour with chattering Spaniards and unwieldy trams jammed with people and screaming from unolled machinery, thorugh the Puerta del Sol-on open space where nine 'roads meet and half Madrid seems to congregate at dusk-to the Ministry of State where the censor's office is (or was).

A wait, then back at the double with your mutilated: manuscript to the "telefonica," guarded by soldiers who de- mand your passes, wave you on with bayonets shouting "Press," and you are whisked up to the fifth floor, there to await con.... tact with the outside world.

By the time you have finished it is 10 or 11 p.m. Every light in Madrid is out and every restaurant closed. Hungry and cautiously snatching your key tired, you creep up to bed,

from the rack, now almost hidden behind a stack of mus- kets.

In ten days I lost ten pounds in weight, covering" the war, captured by the enemy while My own experience in being-

Madrid may well not fall. And then France won't find even Lisbon a safe place. "Even Lis-touring the fronts in search of bon." Particularly not Lisbon.

And the western world will then wish that it had saved Spanish democracy while there was yet time.

I wonder then if any questions will be asked of the Press, the Press that serves the Empire, which chose to raise m red smoke-screen over Spain under which the Fascist Holy Alliance has been able to do a job not exactly to that Empire's best interests.

For once, the truth in the case of Spain was to Britain's interest.

It was not told.

ARE YOU INTELLIGENT?

TOST adult readers no doubt dls- mere nonsense the recent public statement that adults are no more intelligent than children of 14. Probably they made the natural mistake of confusing know- ledge and experience with" intelli- gence.

It is difficult to devise perfect in- telligence tests, but these always nim

ferences in experience. For instance, It would not be fair to judge a town boy's intelligence by his answers to questions concerning matters such as croos or birds and animals.

if they were willing to submit to an

What a shock adults would receive

world over. The latest develop and it ought not to be difficult M missed as ment to give rise to serious to ascertain the truth. At long apprehension is the reported last, there has emerged from arrival of large numbers of the interminable discussions a troops in Morocco, definite plan by Britain, to raising issues of wide inter-which France is also said to beat cutting out as far as possible dif- national import. News messages

a willing party, for the rigid speak of the presence not only prevention of the despatch of of hundreds, but of thousands,further forces to Spain, whether of German forces in this ter- they be described as "volun- ritory, and there are also reports teers" or given any other name. of German preparations for the

This, as we say, should have' | building of seaplane and sub-

been the universal stand taken marine bases. The significance from the very start of the trou- of any such development, in

ble. But better late then never. relation to the balance of power Meanwhile, the whole situation in the Mediterranean, is too apis charged with danger. Only a general willingness to follow reports, however, are categori the British load can bring cally denied in Berlin, where relief to a position which is they are described as being too pregnant with dire possibilities.

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intelligence test where they met chil- dren of 14 on common ground. Obviously it is only in institutions, such as the Army, that they can be forced to do so. In ordinary Ufe only the highly intelligent adult would -ever consent to undergo such a test, for no teacher likes to be proved (though he should know this per- fectly well) Inferior in intelligence to not like to find himself less intelli- some of his puplis, and the boss does gent than the office boy.

So that the average adult can test

the truth of this intelligence theory. for himself without needless humilla- tion, I append a few questions from an intelligence test devised for ele-

quentary schoolboys. The reader can work them out in private. The work must all be done mentally, without the old of penell and paper. ·

A man selling apples and pears offers his apples at id a pound and his pears at 6d a pound. I buy an exact number of pounds of fruit (no fractions) and I pay with a single coin, receiving no change. Now an- swer these questions-

(1) What is the greatest weight of frult I can buy for 2s?

(2) What is the greatest weight of Irult I can buy for Gd?

(3) What is the smallest coin I can spend on equal weights of pears and apples? ----

..

(4) What is the smallest coin I can spend on apples?

(5). What is the smallest coin I can spend if I buy half as many pounds. of apples as I do of pears?

Now try this:--

Tom is five years old and Jack la nise. Answer these questiona→→

(1) How old was Jack when he was twice as old as Tom?

(2) How old was Tom when Jack was three times as old as he? 2.

(3) In how many yours will their ages added together make 247---

(4) In how many years' time will Tom bo twice as old as Jack was when Tom was three?

And what about this? If John's

news may illustrate what could easily happen to any of the dozen or so foreign newspaper- men in Madrid. Some of them had narrower escapes than L

With James Minifie, of the New York Herald-Tribune, I had toured all day in a War Office car from Brunette north- ward to El Escorial and thence southward by easy stages just behind the lines, to finish the day with a run to Aranjuez, then belleved to be outside the semi-circle of enemy troops.

Minifie was dozing. The road was empty.

Then I saw a line of mon to the right of the road perhaps 100 yards ahead.. I pointed them out to my companion, naturally supposing we had reached the loyal front line. Then, as we approached at 50 miles an hour, I noticed a tank carrying a machine-gun and heard a sharp rattle of shots.

"They're shooting at us,” I cried. By this time we were. within twenty yards of the soldiers. The chauffeur pulled up, men carrying pistols ran. (Continued on Page 7).

father is Tem's son, what relation is: John to Tom?

These questions can be answered. correctly by children of 14 who are well above average intelligence, H a man of 40 Ands he cannot answer them, and yet believes in the growth- of intelligence, then the conclusion Is that as a boy he must have been. very dull, and ap

Much testing of adults and juven-- files da necessary to prove the conten-- tion that intelligence ceases to grow. Fat 14, but these few tests will indicate which of two people is the more in- telligent.

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